California hospital risk closure looms for Santa Paula Hospital due to seismic safety requirements and financial challenges by 2030.

NEW YORK - Recent small earthquakes in Ohio were likely triggered by fracking, state regulators said on Friday, a new link that could have implications for oil and gas drilling in the Buckeye State ...

Mount Rainier was experiencing "the most significant seismic activity" at the volcano in more than 15 years as an "earthquake swarm" hit the site starting on Tuesday, according to the U.S. Geological ...

Whether the city and county 911 systems will ever formally merge is something no one can say, but sometime over the next year or two, the two systems will at least be working side by side.

A Dunedin property developer says unlike other parts of the country, the city faces bigger challenges following the government's overhaul of the earthquake-prone building system. Coastal Otago, ...

The government says a new "risk-based" approach to earthquake strengthening will save building owners more than $8.2 billion across New Zealand, and reduce risk from derelict empty buildings. The ...

Dozens of offshore aftershocks followed a magnitude-7.0 earthquake off the coast of Northern California that led to a brief tsunami warning. Stream Los Angeles News for free, 24/7, wherever you are.

A 5.1-magnitude earthquake struck near the Midland-Odessa Metropolitan area Monday evening, briefly rattling parts of North Texas. The U.S. Geolo g ical Survey reported that the quake happened in ...